Conference “The World in the Mirror” of Haruki Murakami
Fri 18 Jan 2013, 9 am
Japan Foundation Center for Cultural Exchange in Vietnam
From Japan Foundation Center for Cultural Exchange in Vietnam:
You are invited to the conference “The World in the Mirror” of Haruki Murakami. It is a chance for the readers to meet and talk with the author discuss his new book 1Q84 as well as other books which were being translated to Vietnamese. The meeting will give some more insights on the value of the Japanese literature in Vietnam nowadays.
With the participation of: :
– Literature critic: Pham Xuan Nguyen
– Professor: Tran To Loan
– Translator: Tran Tien Cao Dang and Luong Viet Dung
Vietnamese readers are quite familiar with Haruki Murakami. Most of his works have been translated and are welcomed by many readers.
His latest book – 1Q84 was launched in Japan in 2009 and became the best seller. Murakami revealed that he wrote the book in two years from the end of 2006 while on vacation in Hawaii. The book looks closer to the feeling of women, therefore, sex plays a bigger role than in any of his other books.
For more information, click here.
 | Japan Foundation Center for Cultural Exchange in Vietnam 27 Quang Trung Hoàn Kiếm, Hà Nội Tel: 3944 7419 www.jpf.org.vn |
Re: “…It is a chance for the readers to meet and talk with the author,…”
…and so… I had this perfect “Murakami moment” this morning…
When I woke up and checked what’s new in town on THG, I nearly fell off my chair reading in the above announcement:
“…It is a chance for the readers to meet and talk with the author,…”
Of course, I could no longer check if there was only one or two moons in the sky above, so I grabbed my beautiful hardcover Murakami 1Q84 , hailed a taxi and in expectation of half a town at the doors of Japan Foundation in a cue to see the maestro and have him sign a copy, was somewhat taken short of breath to see only a small group of students filling the yard…
I thought that the great writer is somewhere behind closed doors, for fear of crowd explosion, as he was no where to be seen and the conference started, and the professors were talking, and everyone was paying close attention… and then, it kind of downed on me that I have probably and most likely slipped into the world with the two moons this morning, but was only thinking that I am in the one with one moon only…
I hurriedly got up and went to meet my husband who was waiting for me at the gate — waiting for me to slip back into the world with one moon only, as it was very obvious by then that Haruki Murakami was in the world where two moons shine… but, it was not at the Japan Foundation this morning…